Not-guilty pleas entered in poultry-plant case

Seven workers at a Greenville poultry plant pleaded not guilty Thursday to using fake Social Security numbers and counterfeit documents to break immigration laws.

The House of Raeford Farms workers were arraigned in federal court. Bail was denied after authorities said the workers were in the U.S. illegally.

The seven workers are among a group of employees who tried to skirt immigration laws by using invalid alien registration and Social Security numbers, or listed other people's numbers as their own, according to federal court documents.

The company didn't immediately return a phone message seeking comment.